Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV as the cause of AIDS and
creator of the HIV blood test, will visit the University at Buffalo
to help mark the launch of the university’s Global Virus
Network Center of Excellence as one of the world’s premier
virology research centers.

The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will host
its first Smile Day at the Museum Health Fair, offering dental
screenings to children and adults with special needs, an overlooked
population in dental care.

UB has entered into an agreement to implement a $1.3 million
project designed to create and test work flow innovations using a
standard vocabulary and set of categories to support digital
manufacturing for a local technology and services innovator.

The University at Buffalo Gender Institute and the Coalition for
the Advancement for Moslem Women will mark the start of the Iranian
New Year with a Naw Ruz celebration of food, dancing and music on
March 31.

The opioid epidemic affecting the nation will be the focus of
the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s 20th Annual
Bullough Lecture, which will be presented by Peggy Compton, PhD,
associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

John H. Campbell, DDS, associate professor in the Department of
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the University at Buffalo School
of Dental Medicine, has been named a fellow of the American College
of Surgeons (ACS).

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
Research and Education Foundation has awarded $20,000 in funding to
UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences investigators to
evaluate the effect of pharmacist intervention on unexpected
hospital utilization.

Three studies focused on improving our understanding of the
human microbiome were awarded funding through the second round of
research pilots supported by the UB Community of Excellence in
Genome, Environment and Microbiome (GEM).

Nearly 400 nurses, physicians and other health care workers will
attend the University at Buffalo School of Nursing’s 20th
Annual Bullough Lecture to learn about the silent epidemic
affecting the nation from pain and opioid addictions expert Peggy
Compton.

The UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, through a
collaborative agreement with the New York State Department of
Health (NYSDOH), has created an Opioid Prescriber Training Program
to help licensed prescribers within the state meet educational
requirements.